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Save the American Workers Act of 2015

Floor Speech

By: Al Green
By: Al Green
Date: Jan. 8, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Employment and Affirmative Action Health Insurance

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Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I vehemently oppose H.R. 30,
wrongfully named the Save American Workers Act of 2015. H.R. 30 does
not ``save'' American workers, rather it endangers the health insurance
of up to a million American workers. H.R. 30 would eviscerate and
emasculate the Affordable Care Act: It raises the threshold of hours
employees must work before they are eligible for employee-based health
insurance from 30 to 40.

Why, Mr. Speaker, would we choose to weaken the Affordable Care Act
when Gallup reported, on January 7, 2015, that in the last quarter of
2014 the uninsured rate dropped to a record low of 12.9%? The
Affordable Care Act is working as it was intended to work, and the
114th Congress should be working to strengthen and improve it rather
than weaken and repeal it.

In closing, Mr. Speaker, passing the Affordable Care Act was the
right thing to do in 2010 and standing up to defend it is the right
thing to do today.

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